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Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡

Publication date: 1902

Topics: Baba Yaga (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction, Baba Yaga (Legendary character), Witches -- Juvenile fiction, Tales -- Russia, Witches -- Fiction, Magic -- Fiction, Dolls -- Fiction, Stepmothers -- Fiction, Fairy tales -- Russia (Federation), Tales -- Russia (Federation), Children's literature, Russian, Illustrated children's books -- Russia (Federation), Fairy tales, Tales, Witches, Russia, Russia (Federation)

Publisher: [S.-Peterburg] : Izdanīe Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gosudarstvennykh bumag

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Russian

Title (alternate script): Василиса Прекрасная

Author (alternate script): Билибин, Иван Яковлевич

12 pages : 33 cm

The old Russian tale of Vasilisa the Beautiful, who is thrown into the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga by her wicked stepmother and escapes by performing all the tasks she is assigned with the help of a tiny magical wooden doll given to her by her dying mother

Cover title

Text from A.N. Afanasʹev's: Narodnye russkie skazki

"Dozvoleno t︠s︡enzuroi︠u︡, S.-Peterburg, 3 Dekabri︠a︡ 1902 g."--Title page verso

Text within ornamental border; illuminated initials; head- and tail-pieces; ill. dated variously 1899-1900

Addeddate: 2021-11-30 23:51:58

Associated-names: Bilibin, Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich, 1876-1942, illustrator; Afanasʹev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich), 1826-1871. Narodnye russkie skazki